Ford surprised the auto industry by bringing out a low priced car with a V8 engine whose engine block was cast in one piece. At prices ranging from $460 to $650, the swift and stylish V8 gave Ford a performance reputation that helped carry it...
A technician at DuPont's pipe manufacturing plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma adjusts extrusion equipment as it produces endless footage of Delrin acetal resin pipe for ultimate use by the oil and gas industry. The two inch diameter light weight, corrosive...
One of the DuPont Company's major contributions to the finishes industry was the invention of 'Duco' lacquer. Its quick drying characteristic revolutionized the painting of automobile bodies by reducing the required time from many days to a few...
Operator in a war industry plant inserts a ring of rayon packing into the stuffing box around the shaft of a water pump. The next step is to draw the gland of the stuffing box up finger tight.
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Rolling of a steel ingot into a slab in a unidentified rolling mill.
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Pouring fifteen tons of molten iron into a mixer at the Homestead Works.
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Bessemer steel converter at the Homestead Works. Bessemer's in blow. Note the ladle held by the jib crane.
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. The Homestead Works with a potrion of Carrie Furnaces in the foreground.
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. The Duquesne Steel Works at night
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Ladle containg fifty tons of molten steel being placed on a conveying or transfer car at a unidentified plant
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Familiarity with hot steel does not breed contempt.
Chemical industry; Defense contracts; Explosives; Factories; Gunpowder; Paint industry; Plastics industry
Excerpt from The Indicator, a newsletter published by the New York and New Jersey sections of the American Chemical Society. Explores the history of DuPont's New Jersey facilities and their contributions to the defense industry. Includes a two-page...
Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been...
Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
Compressors are basic tools for making ammonia for industry and as a starting material for other products of the Belle WV plant of DuPonts Polychemicals Department. Six of a battery of fifteen primary compressors in line build up fast pressures in...
